Extraterritorial protection and political embeddedness: the emigrant governance of the Philippines
20 Oct 2026
17:00 -18:30
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Open to: All
Room W4.05 (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
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Speaker: Professor Rhacel Parreñas, Princeton University
About the seminar topic
This paper examines how origin states govern and protect their citizens beyond territorial jurisdiction. Drawing on 6 months of participant observation at the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers and its satellite offices in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, it introduces 2 concepts: extraterritorial protection, which refers to the laws, policies, institutions and practices through which a migrant-origin state governs and seeks to protect its citizens outside its own territory, and political embeddedness, which captures the degree, depth and type of engagement through which one state acts within the jurisdiction of another.
About the speaker
Rhacel Parreñas is Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is a scholar of gender, migration, labour and economic sociology. She has completed 4 ethnographic studies including Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, which was recognised with the 2023 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award by the American Sociological Association. Her other books include Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work, Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes, and Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. In 2019, she received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, which is the discipline’s highest award given to a gender scholar. For her commitment to transformative scholarship, she received the 2018 Feminist Activist Award from the ASA Sex and Gender Section. Her mentorship of junior scholars was recognised in 2020 with a Mentoring Award from Sociologists for Women in Society.
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